Evolutionary Biology

Researchers from Europe examined dinosaur feces to help explain how the dinosaur dynasty arose.

Come chat with Professor Matthew Harris and learn about how your body shapes and ages the way it does, and the funky fish that make this research possible!  Food and drinks will be provided, first come first served, so come hungry and full of…

Scientists have found that a different genetic element than previously thought is responsible for butterfly wing pigmentation.

After generating 187 new genomes from primate species, researchers found a large fraction of the human genome that is highly conserved across evolution.

Researchers have discovered that one of humanity’s closest relatives also experiences menopause, contradicting a popular hypothesis about the evolutionary origins of this process.

The ability to digest milk into adulthood has recently evolved in humans. What has driven this evolution? Scientists have found that the ability to digest could have helped ancient peoples survive famines and plagues.

No one can escape aging. But scientists have found that turtles and tortoises live much longer and barely age compared to humans and other animals.

by Misha Guptafigures by Xiaomeng Han For close to two centuries, humans have been studying the biological past using fossil records. In recent history, we have added the ability to reconstruct the sequence of our DNA to our arsenal. Furthermore,…

by Sanjana Kulkarnifigures by Corena Loeb The bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) has been infecting humans for thousands of years. Today, TB, which is thought to have originated in Africa and evolved alongside human hosts, is found across the…

by Piyush Nandafigures by Corena Loeb Around 600 million years ago, single-celled life transitioned to multicellular life forms, begetting a paradigm shift in the definition of life on earth. This was an event so remarkable in earth’s timeline that it…